How to pronounce Peshawar?

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Pronunciation of Peshawar in Aldershot, UK

pish - Ah - wur

pish = 'dish'

Ah - like vowel in standard English (not American) word 'aunt'

wur - 'w' is somewhere between English v and w and the final 'r' is pronounced as a flap, rather like the Scottish 'word' without the final 'd'


Type of Name:

Capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, N-W Pakist

Language:

Urdu

Meaning:

First coming (first place reached from Afghanistan (ie from the west)

Additional Information:

This is the Pakistani pronunciation (I lived there for 13 years)


Comments:

Pronunciation of Peshawar in Aldershot, UK

Peshawar is pronounced as

pih sh AH w er r

sh sounds like the 'sh' in 'ship'
ah sounds like the 'a' in 'car'
w sounds like the 'w' in 'win'
er sounds like the 'ur' in 'hurt'
r sounds like the 'r' in 'rat'


Peshawar is pronounced as: Phonetic Spelling:[ pih sh AH w er r ]

sh AH w er r
ship car win hurt rat

Type of Name:

Capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, N-W Pakist

Language:

Urdu

Meaning:

First coming (first place reached from Afghanistan (ie from the west)

Additional Information:

This is the Pakistani pronunciation (I lived there for 13 years)


Comments: